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Z Fellows

Accelerator

zfellows.comTakes pitches from founders

Z Fellows runs a one-week program that brings ten early builders together with founders of multi-billion dollar companies, and continues to help participants afterward. It works with technical builders of all ages, including high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs.

Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

In its own wordsearly-stagementorshipacceleratortechnical foundersconsumerenterprise

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2portfolio companies
3funding rounds on record
3rounds, last 12 months
$1M to $5Mtypical round it comes in at
Seedmost frequent entry

Z Fellows lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Enterprise Software (25%) and Fintech (25%). 50% of its companies are based in India. It invests most often alongside Gradient, Karman Ventures and Llama Ventures.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Z Fellows, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.

Entry stage

share of companies by the stage of its first round
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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed100%
Series A0%
Series B0%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Investment themes

share of its checked companies

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Investment themes
This firmAll checked companies
AI & Machine Learning50%18%
Enterprise Software25%8%
Fintech25%12%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
Gradient1
Karman Ventures1
Llama Ventures1
PearX1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers2100%
  • No longer answers00%
  • Points to another company00%
  • Parked or sold domain00%

A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.

Co-investor network

who it backs companies with, and who they back together
2 shared companiesGradient: 1 shared companiesGradient1Karman Ventures: 1 shared companiesKarman Ventures1Llama Ventures: 1 shared companiesLlama Ventures1PearX: 1 shared companiesPearX1
Shared portfolio companies with Z FellowsFirms that also back companies together

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Compare Z Fellows head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Z Fellows
DateCompanyStage
1 Oct 2026Photonphoton.codesSeed
29 Jun 2026brekfuz inc.brekfuz.comSeed

Round details for Z Fellows

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Z Fellows' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

2 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
brekfuz inc.brekfuz.com · IndiaThe company builds generational software and offers self-healing software available for public use at breken.ai
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Jun 2026SeedFunding round
Photonphoton.codes · United StatesPhoton connects agents to various messaging interfaces such as iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Oct 2026SeedFunding round

About this data

site last read 8 Nov 2026
The homepage of Z Fellows, as last read
zfellows.com as VCinfo last read it
Site
zfellows.com
Last read
8 Nov 2026
Watching since
5 Nov 2026
Rounds since
29 Jun 2026
Companies checked
2

Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.

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